CAVEAT EMPTOR/DISCLAIMER:
Besides the multi-million dollar annual fee I get from PF as Techno-Shaman
of Coolosity many manufacturers easily corrupt my judgment with lavish
gifts, like expensive foreign cars, expensive vacations in the Caribbean,
and events in my honor, like the one I will describe below. With the Colombian
Drug Cartel entering the turntable mat business to launder their money
and bribing audio reviewers with million dollar payoffs to recommend their
mats, it is essential that readers of PF be on their guard. Clearly Count
Kron, by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to celebrate my birthday
was attempting to influence my judgment, and he was successful. I have
made this full disclosure to protect the integrity of PF, and to admit,
with pride, my imperfections and vulnerability to all forms of mortal
corruption...I am very biased (because my brain is a triode ), never
objective (because only machines have that ability), have a clear political
agenda (I want to be President), howl like a Siberian wolf when I make
love ( I am 99% mad dog/1% audiomaniac), and I am very demanding....you
must read all of my articles on the potty ( I only relate well to really
smart people). And because I am about to become a "Golden Oldie"
I have less and less tolerance for almost dead brainy white audio professors
whocant dance and express a narrow view of the audio
arts. So much for audio reviewer pomposity, so lets party.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. GIZMO

On November 3rd I received an email from Count Riccardo Kron insisting
that I come to his castle in the Czech Republic with members of the Triode
Guild to celebrate my birthday, which is on November 28. At first I was
embarrassed but when I showed the proposed menu and agenda of festivities
to Fritz, the Audiomaniac Vampire, he said..."Dude, what you are
crazy, how can you refuse....not since the Golden Days of Romes
orgies has such a party been planned?"....and he was right, so I
accepted.

Last year on my birthday my girlfriend served cold left-over Spam fritters,
lumpy chocolate pudding, moldy corn dogs, and Green Cool Aid...which was
okay with me because I am really not a food person. As far as I am concerned
eating is time wasted that could be better spent playing with audio circuits,
which is why I prefer to eat frozen TV dinners at my workbench, which
I defrost with my heat gun.

On November 25 we all boarded the XH-1 ( see picture of Triode Guild
XH-1 dirigible on the Triode Guild web site) with Fritz, The Audiomaniac
Vampire, piloting we crossed the Atlantic. We especially enjoyed the trip
because we listened to Fritzs 78 mono collection of Django Rheinhart
playing at the Hot Club of Paris in the 1930s on Terry OSullivans
(Lorricraft) new version of the original Garrard 301 on a Western Electric
Theater System.

We were met at the gigantic iron doors (made from output transformer
laminates) of the Kron Castle with trumpets blaring, and warm greetings
by the Count, who was dressed in his Lawrence of Arabia garb and his wife
Eunice who had just finished her Queen Nefretitti make-over. I dont
want to bore you with details of the three days of festivities at the
Kron Castle so I will just list some of them. Members of the Moral Majority,
before you make a harsh judgment of these festivities.... remember I was
just an invited guest and I had nothing to do with the planning.
All of these activities occurred in the main hall of the Counts
ancient stone castle which measures about 150 by 150 feet, with a ceiling
that is about 100 feet high.

(1)A MAGIC BIRTHDAY THRONE:
On a platform near the back of the hall, which was the ideal place to
sit to watch the festivities, was the most magnificent throne of the most
unusual and splendid design. On close inspection, it was a classic white
porcelain potty that was encrusted with the jewels of the Maharaja of
Gingapoor. Count Kron was being exceedingly gracious to create this seat
of honor, and let me make this plain to all...it is a unique thrill to
sit on a potty that is encrusted with diamonds, sapphires and pearls,
and painted with the most divine scenes of Krishna and dancing elephants.
The flusher was made from a 10,000 carat emerald rod.

(2) BARBECUE:
Within the main hall was installed a gigantic barbecue pit and various
exotics were roasted to delight the guests including, but limited to:

Brazier of Zebra tongue in a rendered wild cherry sauce with brandy

Leg of Ethiopian Desert Gazelle in a fig and garlic sauce

Indian Peacock breast stuffed with puree of mango and saffron rice

Mandarin Doberman in an orange sauce

Amazon River Anaconda in a pesto and chili sauce

Sumatra Rat TaTwoeey

While there were many more exotic dishes, these were the crescendos.
It should not surprise you that Eunice Kron was responsible for these
Epicurean dishes..... because the entire Kron family is dedicated to satisfying
the exotic cravings of eccentric men of highly refined sensibilities,
like you.

(3) AMAZONS MUD WRESTLING:
I dont know how the Count was able to recruit Amazons who,
as you know, were mythical 65" women warriors from Scythia
(near the Black Sea) who fought during the Periclean Age of Greece. Let
me assure World Federation of Wrestling fans that Hulk Hogan is a weeny
compared to these Amazons. The Count told me that because the audio arts
are all about wrestling with the paradoxes of life this was an appropriate
form of entertainment, though one Amazon had a very bloody nose.

(4). LION AND BEAR COMBAT:After Saturdays night dinner an African
lion and a Kodiak bear was brought into the center of the hall and....now
I know this will upset animal rights groupies, the eco-senstive, and Disneyites,
but they fought to the death in a battle that filled the halls with the
most horrible screams of agony and pain....which quite frankly (and I
am embarrassed to admit this) reminded me of the pain and anguish that
audiophiles often express to me. The Kodiak bear won, demonstrating once
again, the power of a sincere hug.

(5). VIRGIN BURGUNDY GRAPE PEELERS WITH
HOOLA-HOOPS:All
during the three days of festivities, high breasted young French virgins
wearing nothing but sheer tunics carried around wicker baskets of Burgundy
grapes and peeled them for the guests while keeping their hoola hoops
in constant motion. By the third day their skin was almost completely
red from the grape juice. When was the last time a French virgin peeled
grapes for you while you listened to music in your living room? Why not,
you deserve it?

(6). MERLINS ROCKIN THUNDER
AND LIGHTENING BAND: Again the Count blew
my mind, with the guest appearance of Merlin, the magician of King Arthurs
Court, who did magic tricks that amazed us all, but the second part of
his act was the most thrilling...and I still cant figure out how
he did it...but as he waved his baton this totally cool rock and roll
music was heard in the hall and then when he moved the same baton with
a jerk, lightening and thunder filled the sky and shaked the entire castle....talk
about accurate transient response and bass.

(7) THE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE:On Sunday, just when I thought it was impossible
for anything to top what had happened, four Mandingo warriors wearing
nothing but leopard skin tunics pushed into the center of the hall a gigantic
birthday cake...maybe ten feet tall.... in the shape of a 300B...with
two hundred and thirty eight candles...one for each year that I have lived
in this, and all of my other previous life-times...and with a clap of
Merlins hand, out jumped Cindy Crawford covered in nothing but whipped
triode cream and walks over to me, gives me a big hug and presents me
a red box. I opened the box, as I wiped the whipped cream off my body,
and lo and behold the box was filled with four brand new KR 10 tubes;
the new dual OCTAL medium mu triode (mega-6SN7s) that will
catapult the directly heated triode revolution to the next highest plane
of creamosity. As I was gawking in amazement at this new tubes, Count
Kron, said, "Dr. Gizmo, it is only right that the gifted listeners
of Positive Feedback should learn about my newest creation first, because
it is recognized all over the world that the PF tribe is totally out there
in exploring the edge of the audio arts".

I was so touched that humble little me was being given this scoop that
I started to wail uncontrollably, and my tears become so profuse that
a flood, or I should say, a tidal wave of tears, started to fill the hall
threatening to drown everyone, and just in the nick of time Merlin clapped
his hands and the flood of my tears disappeared.

Do you understand how grand this gesture was? Do you grock how much intense
dream energy is in our tribe of thermionic techno-shamans for a NEW advanced
form of dual triode that can be used as a voltage amplifier/driver for
our beloved directly heated triode output tubes? Have you any idea of
the significance of this tube and what it will mean in advancing the audio
revolution on all fronts? Can you grasp the confluence of politics and
art...the edge of the American music revolution is being created in the
Czech Republic that was once under the control of the Communists? If not
sit down by my side, get a piece of birthday cake, scoff a scoop of triode
cream, and let me tell you an amazing but true story...after I ask you
this important question:

WHAT TIME IS IT IN AUDIOLAND?

It is 1493, and we are just at the beginning of the renaissance
in the audio arts, which will not come into full bloom until "The
Age of Discovery" gains momentum. We are in Europe coming out of
the Dark Ages, and Columbus has just discovered the new world, and we
are just beginning to understand that Europe is not the whole world, but
only a tiny part of it. We are discovering exotic new cultures and territories
we never knew existed, and we will never be the same again.

It is the same time in our audio industry. We are coming out of the Dark
Ages, and entering the Age ofAudio Discovery because the
Internet has opened up an amazing new world to us. We are the explorers.
We once thought that our world was the world, and we now know this
is false; there is much more. The monolithic power authority that once
dwelled in audio magazines has shattered because we are discovering that
our old view, which we thought was an expansive view of the audio arts,
is in fact, a very narrow minded view. This revolution is not easy. It
is causing much pain, confusing to manufactures, upsetting the pundits,
and it is the only and best hope for the revitalization of our community.
There is no going back, so keep waxing your surf boards.

THE ANCIENT WISDOM OF KARNAK

DR. GIZMOS FIRST QUARTER INCH THEOREM

Those of you who have excavated at the Temple of Karnak
in Egypt know that at the top of the main temple is written, in hieroglyphics...THE
FIRST QUARTER INCH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. We
all know this ancient wisdom to be true, and it has many forms...like...the
first few bars of any piece of music is most important...poets know the
importance of the opening words of their poem (This is the forest primeval),
and this logic also applies to all audio circuits....just give this piece
of piety a chance.

One of the benefits of being such an old audio dog, who has published
so much dribble on audio circuits over the last two decades, is that it
is easy to discover that my thoughts on audio circuits havent change
much over the decades. This may be because of severe brain damage I suffered
when I was thirteen in a bicycle accident, or I may have stumbled upon
some good ideas that work....I am not sure. You be the judge.

There are thousands of copies of UNDERSTANDING
TUBE ELECTRONICS (published in 1982 ) out there
in Audioland and you will notice that over and over again the expression
LESS IS MORE,
but there is one notion that is also repeated over and over again, and
it had direct bearing on the Futterman circuit and my pioneering development
of hybrid tube/mosfet amplifiers, i.e.....the importance of the first
tube in determining ultimate audio quality of a tube circuit. Julius appreciated
how important the first quarter inch was, because he planted this notion
in our head....the first tube is critically important.

When I started to consider this I realized that this was like Einsteins
theorem of reality; a general theorem of the audio arts: If you screw
things up in the first stage you can never get it back...it can not be
repaired. Just think about this for a moment: whatever is corrupted at
the input of your audio chain will be amplified through the audio chain...and..it
gets worse from that point...each stage will also add its own corruption.
This especially applies to recording studios where microphones are the
first quarter inch, and why there is such passionate consideration of
different brands and types of microphones....with tube microphones still
representing the concresence of the art.

We have been so gleeful over the renaissance of high quality output tubes,
that we have forgottenhow important the first tube is,
but the thermionic tides shift, and it is time to return to aesethetic
consideration of the input stage. Obviously on the Triode Guild web site
this theme is repeated ad nauseum, with me suggesting you should hunt
for the best NOS, pre-1960s input tubes for your single-ended triode amplifiers.
I have gladly paid fifty smackers for select 6SN7s.

This is the most conventional wisdom and a subject that the master Nobu
Shishido took great relish in discussing with me, and why he had a passion
for the very rare, very esoteric and out of production Western Electric
437 miniature triode, which are used in all of the WAVAC amplifiers. I
recently paid $150 each for some 437s and 417s just to have them. As you
know from Eric Barbours articles in Glass Audio, the weakest area
in the current thermionic revolution is the lack of high quality miniature
triodes....meaning that those 12AX7 and 6922s are not that cool.
Want an insider secret...I dont know a tube entrepreneur who isnt
trying to have high quality 12AX7s made. Will smooth plate Telefunkens
ever return?

As the directly heated triode revolution grows you and I are realizing
just how critical, the first quarter inch, the voltage/driver is to the
success of our SETs. I have been aggravating about this subject on my
web site, suggesting that MORE than the classic 6SN7 is needed (in it
is various configurations) because we are learning more and more about
the subtleties of these circuits. Have you noticed how quickly designers
have shifted from the 12AX7, 12AU7, 12AT7 tubes to the octal varieties
which are so superior they are JAN.....Joint Army/Navy tubes, which, because
of the ending of the Cold War, are now available in truckloads. Even the
Soviet military loved this tube which is why there are so many Sovtek
6SN7s around....again the politics of art. Now there are skads of higher
quality 6SN7s available and everyone is rightly using them because they
are electrically superior. There is only one reason to use the 9 pin
miniature triodes...they are cheap. Eric Barbour, Svetlanas
thermionic-techno shaman has written and extremely important article about
the hierarchy of small signal triodes in Glass Audio, Volume 9,
# 6 which discusses this subject in detail. This is extremely important
information. Check it out.

It shouldnt surprise you that this notion of using the 6SN7 as
a driver tube was popularized in Japan where SOP is 6SN7/300B, and for
an interesting reason...empiricism. It is like mustard and hot-dogs. There
are many octal dual triodes, just like the 6SN7, and many are direct substitutes.
The combination of electrical superiority and the tonal quality of this
genre of tube sets it apart from the 9 pin miniatures, because there is
a family sound, just like the 300Bs, and there are good, better and best...just
like the 300Bs, but there are no real badies...like you can get in the
12AX/T/U Family.

Am I suggesting that by simply switching to the new KR 10s that all of
those amplifier that use 6SN7 will advance in performance...like shifting
from Chinese 300Bs to KR 300BXLs? Read on Socrates.

IF IT IS TOO HOT GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN

Lets get one thing straight dudes...my job is to cause you pain
and aggravation, not feed you putrid audio placebos. If I didnt
have enemies I wouldnt be doing my job. If you want to read audio
dribble written by custard sucking mamby pamby ex-yuppy scum audio pundits
in pink tights you know what to read, so here is a double heavy dose of
pain: The thermionic revolution is zooming ahead on two fronts, but there
are still two areas of retardation, and you better be suffering
because of it...because your job Job is to suffer. Isnt suffering
what this sport is all about?

300B polygamy is now legal and available to everyone. There are so many
good 300Bs available at different price points, everyone can now join
the exclusive club. Cool.

With the appearance of the new generation of KR directly heated triodes
no one can belly ache that directly heated output tubes of absolutely
the highest quality are not available. Because Count Kron has created
a new directly heated triode vernacular I have labeled him the Beethoven
of Triodes, and he, better than anyone else, knows that his superior tubes
need a superior driver tube. The new Western Electric 300Bs are also a
stupendous, but the KR tubes are now defining the outer edge of possibilities
and no one...let me say that again...no one yet has a clue about their
ultimate expression..thats howgood they are.
Have you noticed how many of the DIY amplifiers designers at the edge
are creating circuits to exploit the unique qualities of these newgeneration of KR tubes, and they need superior driver circuits?
Surf the web and you will get what I am saying.

No more complaints about output transformers...transformer artists in
American, Japan, and Italy are offering us an enormous variety of the
super high quality iron, and that includes the Magnequest re- innovation
of "parallel-feed", and the new Plitron torroid single ended
transformers, that I will report on shortly...and the new KR output transformers...glorious
iron abounds. Hip-hip hooray!

I shall not relent on the feebleness of power supply design in America.
Whats the problem here? It cant be cost, because even the
most expensive amplifiers dont have properly designed power supplies!
Boo, fart, burp. Just wait until I become President and pass The Federal
Power Supply Standards Act.

We need for more advanced and subtler driver stages that will
reveal deeper levels of directly heated triode cream. It is not that the
driver stages that designers are using are not properly designed...they
are.... within the "normal" context, but the world wide web
has taught us that there is much more work to be done in this area, and
that is why the KR 10 tube is such an important development. It is the
driver tube we have longed for, and I speculate it is the driver tube
that is essential for releasing the nascent magic of all 300Bs, and especially
the high powered directly heated triodes and the higher powered KR tubes.
The KR 10 is the first new dual triodedesign that has appeared,
and it is not just an exact copy of a 6SN7, is it much more. The darkness
is lifting.

AN OLD IDEA IMPLEMENTED

A recent experiment which is one of the oldest and least used ideas in
tube amplifiers, which was first brought to my attention by Ike Eisenson
in the Audio Updates in the late 1970s, proves the point about
advancing the input stage of amplifiers. This experiment took about 30
minutes to complete, and is now permanent. I connected an independent
tube regulated power supply to the driver stage of both my single-ended
300B amps and Sun SV 300 MKII, which also have their own independent tube
regulated power supplies for their output stages, creating two completely
isolated tube regulated power supplies...one for the input stage and one
for the output stage.......and wham bang thank you Mam!

By totally isolating the voltage amp/driver stage power supply from the
output stage power supply, I achieved improved transient response, clarity
and made the lower octaves more solid, equally an expansion of the harmonic/space/time
continuum in my home aural matrix. This is especially relevant in single-ended
triode because improving the quality of the front end power supply improved
the quality of the bass response, which is their weak point. No circuit
alteration, just power supply isolation. I know you all know why this
type of power supply isolation works: it is a low IQ no-brainer tweak
of the highest order, and helped me discover a deeper level of the KR
300BXL magic musical cream.

A prediction: savvy solder slingers DIY tube artisan will start designing
with separate power supplies for their input stages....just think about
using one of those darling little tube rectifiers! It only takes another
teeny beeny winding on your power transformer, or at the very least using
a choke from your main B+ for isolation. For only a few dollars in parts
you can achieve very significant results.

What is the point? We are not paying enough attention to the subtle
qualities of the input stage of our amplifiers, and that includes push/pull.
One of the reasons that I recommend subscribing to Costruire, the
Italian audio magazine is this is the place where a great deal of serious
attention is put into this subject. I also call your attention to the
series of articles in Glass Audio, by Reid Welch, which discusses the
piety of driver circuits for directly heated triodes. If you want to fully
exploit this new KR-10 make sure it has a very high quality power supply
because it demands it.

DRIVER ON STEROIDS?

You can say the KR 10 is a 6SN7 on steroids, because it is designed to
dissipate more current, swing much more voltage and needs more 6.3 Volt
filament current, in the same way you can claim that the new KR 300BXL
is a 300B on steroids. This analogy misses the whole point of how this
tube will potentially push the envelop of harmonic cream, dynamism,
and subtly. And why do I say potentially? Because in my rush to
meet the deadline for this issue and alert you to this new development
I havent had a chance to use them, which...ALERT, ALERT...
will require us to rewire our input circuit because the tube pin connections
are not exact substitutes for the 6SN7, and this tube again needs three
times the filament current...1.8 amps. This tube is about 20% larger
than a 6SN7 with much larger plates and looks very much like a chunky
5881.

There is a good reason for deviation. The KR 10 is not made like a 6SN7
or the 9 pin miniature triodes which have tiny little wires from their
"guts" to the tube pins, The KR 10 uses much heavier and stiffer
tube connection wire in its construction and this wire cant be bent
and moved around so that Count Kron must use a different pin layout. This
is a good thing because that is what it takes to exploit its more advanced
precision construction, including the very high vacuum in these tubes.
I dont want to bore you about KRs advanced construction techniques,
innovation in design, or the importance of the very high vacuum achieved.....but
the reason why these tubes can achieve such high levels of performance...(remember...these
are vacuum tubes...and all things being equal)..the higher the vacuum
the better the performance, and longevity of the tube.

The reason I alert you to the larger current and voltage demands of the
KR tube is that if you want to retro-fit this tube, be sure that the power
supply of your amp can produce the extra current. I believe that most
amplifier power supplies have the reserve, and this is like going from
a two barrel carburetor to a supercharger on your Camaro. But again...if
you are retrofitting be sure that your amps power supply can deliver
the goods. Count Kron assures me that KR 10 can be operated up to 500
volts! Yikes.

Most miniature dual triodes are mass produced on "carousels"
and there is a great deal of variation from one triode to another and
from one tube to another, which is why every tube audio manufacturer goes
through a sorting process to chuck 25% of the tubes that dont make
specs...which is what we did at New York Audio Labs. The KR 10s are made
in the same...one at handmade time...as their output tubes
and are very precision devices...and you have to pay for this level of
precision....it is the price you pay for quality.

So how can I be sure that the KR 10 has the potential I assert when I
havent used them yet (be on your guard)? (1) Count Kron is the concrescent
genius of tube design and (2) Every KR tube that I use every day, and
that includes the KR 2A3 and the KR 300BXL has a family trait, which makes
sense because they are all from Count Krons gene pool, and I am
assuming that the KR 10 has the same family genes...rich, creamy, clear,
very low in distortion, dynamic, complex yet subtle, and of the highest
quality build. If you are not on the web go to your local library and
read my various articles praising the KR power tubes. These are, like
all of the KR tubes, beautiful hand crafted works of art, and holding
them in your hand is like holding a jewel. If you own a solid state amp
buy these tubes instead of a Cartier diamond for your girlfriend.

Do I sound like a KR salesmen? Are your eyes getting heavy and are you
sliding into a dreamy state, wondering what these tubes will do for you
amplifier? Let me shake you up and rattle you out of your triode dream
state. Let me keep on huckstering and paint a picture for you that has
a very wide and deep thermionic event horizon.

What if I told you that the KR 10 can be had in high, medium or low mu
so that you can use it in any tube circuit from phono preamps, and...(sit
down on your potty and buckle your safety belt) you can use them as an
output tube? Like I said...just give this piece of piety a chance.

Vinylmaniacs have you ever heard a state of the art tube preamp that
uses 6SN7s? Have any of you heard a state of the art line stage that uses
6SN7s? What about mic preamps with 6SN7s, or output stages of DACs? Can
you imagine any of these with the high mu version of the KR 10? All of
you push/pull pentode amplifier lovers, have you ever experienced a driver
stage using these tubes? All of you smart thermionic techno-shamans who
are, following in the footsteps of New York Audio Labs and, by designing
hybrid tube/solid state amplifiers are you considering 6SN7s? Have any
of you played with hybrid cascodes with a Fet on top of a 6SN7, or a tube
current source connected to a 6SN7? Are you getting my drift...all of
those classic tube designs that use miniature low or medium or high mu
triodes...it is time to move up to the creamier higher quality octal spread...improve
the quality of that first quarter inch...and then if you understand this
logical thermionic ascension and want to get even higher and higher, do
the KR 10 which is probably the breakthrough, breakout in all of those
circuits that are designed to amplify small signals.

Do you get my point? There is no need and no such thing as "new
and better" in tube circuits. Just take those proven classic tube
circuits and redesign them for the KR 10, and Voila, you are on the next
highest plateau of ecstasy.

THE MYSTICAL BAGEL

Can we come full circle now...you know the mystical bagel of the audio
arts. There is no better place to experience the dynamism of the current
audio revolution (made possible by the world wide web) than in the arena
of directly heated triodes. More passion and creativity can be found here
than in any other place, and Count Riccardo Kron, as far as the Guildmeister
of the Triode Guild is concerned, has challenged us all by creating a
new thermionic vernacular. We need his KR 10 to release the nascent
beauty of all directly heated triodes, and especially his tubes. We
need the high mu version of the KR 10 to create a new generation of line
stages and phono preamps. It will take years before we gain the skill
to fathom full measure his achievement in tube design. The KR-10 is
the key we have been missing. This new medium mu dual triode, is offering
us heretofore undreamed of creative possibilities in tube amplifier design
and by direct ontological implication expanded possibilities of musical
ecstasy in our home...and what could be a better birthday gift than expanding
the pleasure possible with the first quarter inch?

I am not now going to reveal some other awesome new creations
the Count revealed to me because I have not yet received my PF Readers
Liability Indemnification Insurance Policy that protects me in case
of your heart fails from what I reveal. All that I can promise you is
that just when you think you have gotten as high as you can get on Mt.
Triode, the clouds clear and there is another higher peak way off in the
distance, and as your telescope focuses you notice...there is Lawrence
of Arabia beckoning. Be sure to check the Triode Guild web site for more
thrills, spills and chills from the Czech Republic.

IN CLOSING

This is not easy to write because I am dancing while I am writing.

On my birthday I would like to ask the forgiveness of all of those who
I have offended during the year. I was born a bad boy, and I will die
a bad boy. I have been aggravating the orthodoxy since I was in kindergarten,
and I figure I must have, beside brain damage, some kind of genetic damage
from eating moldy salami sandwiches as a child. My astrologist told me
I have only another five hundred years and ten life times left to figure
all of this out, and I hope I make it.

On the other hand one of the great sources of joy this last year has
been the contact I have made with my fellow revolutionary music aliens
on the world wide web. Thank you for the poetry you sent me, sharing with
me your beautiful works of audio art, your longings and your encouragement.
Your passion and restless creativity is the audio revolution, and I am
honored to dance by your side within the circle of life, and serve you.
The sign above The Triode Guild says: Vita Nil Musica Subite Cum Pessimo
Tuo, which translated from the Latin means...Life Is Nothing Without
Music, So Get Down With Your Bad Self.

And of course I want to thank Count Riccardo and Eunice Kron for a great
birthday celebration at their castle in the Czech Republic.

Over and out from Music HyperSpace

Dr. Gizmo drgizmo3@earthlink.net

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